The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, and Meter by Koji Kawamoto
The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, and Meter

Koji Kawamoto

The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, and Meter

Koji Kawamoto with Stephen Collington (Translator), Kevin Collins (Translator)

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Leading literary scholar and critic Koji Kawamoto examines traditional Japanese poetry and shows how the deceptively simple metrics of seven and five syllables packs information and intense emotional content into a short space. The book also provi...

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